On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:11:09PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>> Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>> > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:01:23PM -0700, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
>>> >> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jason Garrett-Glaser <[email protected]> 
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > I dislike this; just make the function mmx2.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm supporting this sentiment, at least somewhat, as in "I'd prefer to
>>> >> not add too many hacks for prehistoric cpus". Are there mmx-only cpus
>>> >> (possibly from Intel) that do support cmov? Or does cmov support imply
>>> >> sse/mmx2?
>>> >
>>> > cmov support implies nothing of the sort.  It appeared with the i686
>>> > architecture pioneered by the Pentium Pro, which did not even have MMX.
>>>
>>> And on the flip side, the original Pentium MMX did not have cmov.  I
>>> don't think we particularly care about either of those CPUs though.
>>
>> So what's a suitable way forward if the original patch is deemed too
>> ugly?  Ifdeffing out all the functions with HAVE_CMOV does not sound
>> better to me, so ideas welcome...
>
> I guess I'm OK with the original patch, the HAVE_CMOV needs to go
> somewhere and if it goes in x86util.asm, the ugliness is at least in
> one specific place. So go ahead and commit that. Jason can you live
> with that?

Why don't we just make it mmx2?  All mmx2 CPUs have cmov.  I don't
like adding new variables for the purpose of supporting 15-20-year-old
systems.

Jason
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